November 30, 2017
Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Rihanna Featured in This 118-Song Mash-up of 2017's Biggest Hits
by Andrea Park / glamour.com
This Mashup video made by AnDy Wu on Nov 23th was praised by the online magazine Glamour.com on November 30th, 2017.
“In honor of the many, many amazing earworms that carried us through this year and, however briefly, distracted us from the never-ending cycle of terrible news, one incredibly talented YouTuber created the perfect mix of a whopping 118 of the year's best tracks. AnDy Wu is the genius behind the mash-up, which he titled "Perfect Struggle."”
“The 10-minute mash-up is separated into six thematic sections: Cultivate, Struggle, Heal, Intensify, Relive, and Perfect. The songs featured in each section correspond to the section titles. During "Struggle," in which all the featured videos are colored in black-and-white, Kesha's "Praying" takes center stage. Later, in "Heal," while Lady Gaga's "The Cure" plays, emotional scenes from her revealing Netflix documentary are interspersed between those from other music videos.”
— Andrea Park
OTHER YOUTUBE COMMENTS
“The Grammy's should hire you: it would be amazing for them to use your work to display music throughout the year! Your work is unbelievably beautiful!”
— GarageStudio
“Yours is so different from all the other mashups because it keeps getting stuck in my head! With other mashups, it's just one continuous song with a slight change of beat but ultimately lacking any substance. With this one, there are so many key, interesting, and sonic-ly catchy parts that I keep coming back to watch it again and again! And the visuals are amazing, truly a work of art to compliment such a great musical masterpiece. Thank you for taking the time to make this!”
— Killian Sweeney